EDDIE Long, a self-styled gay-hating bishop who stood accused in 2010 of sexual misconduct involving four males – former members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist megachurch in Lithonia, Georgia – is at the centre of a new controversy involving a throne, Jewish paraphernalia … and a load of tosh spouted by a Messianic rabbi. [...]
UNTIL recently, Christian evangelicals have been in the vanguard of the “let’s-cure-The-Gays” movement, but it now appears that Jews of all stripes have been scrambling onto the bandwagon. Earlier this week, I was alerted to some bilge called the Declaration On The Torah Approach To Homosexuality, which states: The Torah makes a clear statement that [...]
SPAT upon and branded a “slut” for dressing “immodestly”, Na’ama Margolese has become a national heroine following her recent appearance on TV, in which she and her mum spoke of the harassment they suffered at the hands of Jewish extremists in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth. More than that, Prime Minister Netanyahu – according [...]
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ULTRA-Orthodox Jews in Israel have been attracting so much bad publicity over the treatment of their womenfolk that they hit back at critics over the weekend – by dressing themselves and their children in Holocaust garb. According to this report, thousands of the lame-brained extremists gathered on Saturday night in Jerusalem to protest what they [...]
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SHLOMO Fuchs is a puzzled man. The ultra-Orthodox Jew from Jerusalem cannot understand why he was taken into custody earlier this week for “exercising his right to freedom of expression”. After all, all he did was to abuse a female soldier, calling her a “slut, slut, slut!” for not taking a back seat on a [...]
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JOURNALISTS and police were roughed up, stones were thrown and refuse bins set alight in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth yesterday when hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men got stroppy in defence of rules they have imposed to segregate their womenfolk – or chattels as they tend to regard them. Zealots in the town, according [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
